FFFOUND!

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Since I discovered the existence of FFFFound! I've been really really (yes, twice really) excited about this image-bookmarking site (although that label doesn't make justice to the service, for me is much more than that). As I didn't know about anybody who may have an invite, I took the liberty of send them an email on monday to ask which were the steps I had to take to start participating. Big was my surprise when a few hours later Keita Kitamura from the ffffound! team sent me an email with an invitation code to participate, which I used immediately.

Now, the big question, what is ffffound?Ffffound! is a site that allows you to bookmarking images in a really simple way but also, it is a visual playground, an inspiration source, and a fun place to spend time with (all this thanks to the users of course). The usability is great and improves the experience, all you have to do is put an "special" link (that they provides to you) in the bookmarks toolbar in FireFox, then sign-in in your account and let the image-hunting acrooss the web begins.When we arrive to a site that it has an image that we like we press the "special link" and all the images at the site acquires a blue border which it indicates that the images are susceptibles to be added to our account, when the mouse is over the selected image the ffffound! logo will appears, click on the logo and presto the image was added to our home at ffffound! (which has a tumblelog vibe) with the rest of our collection.

Like every 2.0 tool it has a social networking component and this is the most interesting part, our found images can be shared with other users that will become into followers of our account if they mark one image of our collection. The quality of the "found" images is awesome thanks to the extremely active users who have a great eye to catch images across the web that will feed our retinas constantly.

I'm sorry Inga, I gave my last invite long time ago. The best thing that you can do is write an email directly to the ffffound! team (you can find their email here). I'm sure they will send you the activation code shortly. Good luck and thank you for stopping by.